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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 30: Ultracold Atoms I (with Q)
A 30.5: Talk
Thursday, March 9, 2017, 15:45–16:00, P 104
Robustness of Topologically Protected Edge States in Quantum Walk Experiments with Neutral Atoms — •Thorsten Groh1, Stefan Brakhane1, Wolfgang Alt1, Dieter Meschede1, Janos Karoly Asbóth2, and Andrea Alberti1 — 1Institut für Angewandte Physik, Universität Bonn, Wegelerstraße 8, D-53115 Bonn, Germany — 2Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H-1525 Budapest, P.O. Box 49, Hungary
Discrete time quantum-walks (DTQWs) with trapped ultracold atoms offer a versatile platform for the experimental investigation of topological insulator materials. An experimental proposal based on neutral atoms in spin-dependent optical lattices to realize one- and two-dimensional discrete-time quantum walks (DTQWs) with spatial boundaries between distinct Floquet topological phases is presented.
The robustness of topologically protected edge states arising at the boundaries separating distinct topological domains is analyzed in the presence of experimentally induced decoherence. Under realistic decoherence conditions, the experimental feasibility to observe unidirectional, dissipationless transport of matter waves along topological boundaries is investigated. [1]
[1] T. Groh, S. Brakhane, W. Alt, D. Meschede, J. K. Asbóth, and A. Alberti, "Robustness of topologically protected edge states in quantum walk experiments with neutral atoms," Phys. Rev. A 94, 013620 (2016).